The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 929 - Tom Hanks and Joe Biden Think We’re Stupid SOBs

00:00:00.000 The economy is in the gutter. Gas is through the roof. The store shelves are empty.

00:00:05.300 Violent crime is skyrocketing. Our money is rapidly losing value. We're prohibited from

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00:00:16.620 when we do inject ourselves with that experimental drug, much of our country remains closed,

00:00:22.380 all on Joe Biden's watch, most of it at his direction. Which is why the president,

00:00:30.380 who has an anvil of an approval rating at the moment, has enlisted one of America's most

00:00:35.740 likable celebrities to convince the country that everything is going great.

00:00:42.180 If only we're brave enough, brave enough to live through two of the most difficult years many of

00:00:47.860 us can remember. Brave enough to pull ourselves up again and again. America is the home of the

00:00:55.020 brave. It's why we keep getting up, no matter how many times we get knocked down. Like with our

00:01:00.640 economy, it isn't all the way back, but it's getting stronger. We may be entering year three

00:01:05.920 of a pandemic none of us wanted or expected. We are stronger than we were a year ago today.

00:01:11.480 We're bringing on new drivers. We're expanding. The fear that was there, it's going away.

00:01:18.140 Business is booming. We're strong. We are courageous. We are resilient. We are America,

00:01:24.600 land of the brave. I've long said it's never been a good bet to bet against America.

00:01:30.220 And that's more true today than ever. Forget for a moment how pathetic it is that the president 0.99

00:01:36.940 needs to enlist Woody from Toy Story to make people like him. Did you notice the subtle 0.97

00:01:43.000 transformation of language? He said, Tom Hanks said that America is the land of the brave.

00:01:50.700 That's not the line. Traditionally, we say that America is the land of the free

00:01:56.040 and the home of the brave. But we can't say that anymore because in Biden's America,

00:02:02.000 the first part is no longer true. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:06.940 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from Joseph Campes, who says,

00:02:18.620 I'm glad we agree kids are resilient. Now we can all stop worrying that they'll get the sniffles,

00:02:24.160 you know, because they're so resilient. Great point. Great point. When the liberals like New

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00:04:07.820 to say that the decision to change Land of the Free and Home of the Brave to simply Land of the Brave

00:04:15.520 was intentional. When you are talking about any television commercial, first of all, but certainly

00:04:22.140 when you're talking about a political television commercial, certainly when you're talking about one

00:04:25.740 that involves the President of the United States, every single word, every single syllable is

00:04:32.960 intentional. And the reason that you don't hear anything about freedom in that commercial is

00:04:41.300 because it would be preposterous. It's not even that Joe Biden and Tom Hanks wouldn't want to be

00:04:46.740 able to claim that we are more free today than ever. It would just be laughable. It would totally take you

00:04:52.300 out of the commercial because we look around and we say, we're not free at all. Some of our most basic

00:04:56.940 rights that we previously had have been taken away from us and remain in the hands of the Dr. Fauci's

00:05:02.860 of the world. We're talking about personal freedoms. We're talking about political freedoms,

00:05:06.820 right? Not only that we can't go run our businesses, not only that we can't walk into a restaurant now in

00:05:11.300 many places without showing our medical history, but our political freedoms too. We are not even

00:05:17.640 entitled to act through our legislatures very often because when our senators, for instance, go out

00:05:24.180 and they say, we disapprove of this Joe Biden OSHA mandate. Well, Dr. Fauci says, who cares? And the

00:05:30.380 head of OSHA says, who cares? And the bureaucrats say, who cares? And then we've got to rely on the Supreme

00:05:35.980 Court to hopefully overturn some of them, but not all of them. We are less free. And if you haven't

00:05:44.880 learned by now that the left uses the manipulation of language as its primary means of changing the

00:05:50.540 culture, I can't help you. I can't help you. We've had over half a century of political correctness,

00:05:55.220 wokeness. That's what they're doing. And it's a terrifying, subtle admission from Biden that we are,

00:06:02.480 in fact, less free. Now that's Biden's approach to dealing with his failed policies is just to

00:06:09.260 pretend that everything is good, to pretend that you're an idiot, to pretend that you don't have 0.99

00:06:14.060 eyes, that you can't see what's going on, to get America's famously most likable celebrity to go out 1.00

00:06:21.000 and say, no, it's really good. The economy is really good. You're doing great. Everyone's happy.

00:06:25.740 Be happy. Be happy. That's the Biden approach, the complete denial of reality. Gavin Newsom in California

00:06:31.840 has taken the opposite approach to deal with his failed policies. California is falling apart.

00:06:37.660 My old city of Los Angeles is really falling apart. You've got crime through the roof. You got

00:06:42.380 stores rather boarded up, buildings boarded up. You've got now railroads, railway stations that are

00:06:50.460 getting robbed and looted every single night by criminals that the city and the state do nothing

00:06:55.160 about. When you go to downtown, when you go to Skid Row, it is not just like a third world country.

00:07:00.880 It's much worse than a third world country. And that's exactly the point that Gavin Newsom

00:07:05.300 made when he went to visit.

00:07:06.760 Let me thank everybody behind me. But as Toke said, let me in particular thank all the men

00:07:12.260 and women in orange and yellow for their outstanding work and for moving quickly. I mean, just less than 48

00:07:20.620 hours ago, we said we're coming down. Let's set this thing up. We had all the lawyers say, well,

00:07:26.100 hold on. It's not your property. If you get injured, I mean, all every conceivable thing that makes you

00:07:31.480 frustrated and crazy about government bureaucracy was at play. But everybody worked together. They worked

00:07:36.320 through those issues. We got this memorandum of understanding and we created a new framework of

00:07:40.740 understanding about our mutual responsibility to address what the hell is going on here.

00:07:44.600 And I say that with emphasis. I see what you see. I see what you've been covering. I see what

00:07:49.980 everybody's seen and asking myself, what the hell is going on? I mean, it looked like a third world 0.93

00:07:54.680 country, these images, the drone images that were on the nightly news day in and day out. Some networks

00:07:59.560 weaponizing them for their own political agenda and others just reporting the damn news fairly 0.99

00:08:05.140 and appropriately. What the hell's going on here in California? What, who the hell's the governor in 0.99

00:08:11.880 this place? What the hell kind of policies have you guys been, oh, me, it's me. I'm, oh, it's all my

00:08:16.980 policies. Oh, whoops. But yeah, someone should vote that guy out. That me, that Gavin Newsom. It's

00:08:23.340 like a third world country here. The only reason I disagree with Gavin Newsom's assessment is that

00:08:29.120 it's not like a third world country. It is significantly worse than a third world country. 1.00

00:08:34.600 There are some poor countries that get along basically just fine and they've got decent

00:08:40.220 cohesion and they don't have crime that's skyrocketing through the roof. LA is much worse

00:08:45.120 than that. There's very little cohesion. The rule of law is collapsing. And frankly, even the DAs,

00:08:50.960 even the prosecutors are, are not enforcing the law. And then you've got crime everywhere and people

00:08:57.660 living in filth. And, and it's, it's even worse when it's in a rich place, a really rich city,

00:09:03.640 a really rich state. One of the largest economies in the world is just California.

00:09:08.640 Says, what the hell's going on? It is Newsom's fault. It's not entirely Newsom's fault,

00:09:15.620 but it's partially Newsom's fault. And it's certainly the part, fault of his party and the

00:09:23.040 Democrat mayor, mayors and the Democrat prosecutors and the Democrat state representatives.

00:09:31.640 And that, that's been going on for a long time. And so what Newsom's trying to do is evade

00:09:35.060 responsibility. He says, there's no way that I'm going to be able to convince Angelinos and other 0.98

00:09:39.780 Californians to look at Skid Row, to look at the railroad yards and, and tell them everything's

00:09:45.400 tickety boo. So that, because that's not going to work, I'm just going to come out on the other

00:09:48.700 side and I'm just going to start yelling about it. The thing I find most interesting about this story

00:09:53.600 though, is that what Gavin Newsom has done here is, is exactly what Donald Trump did with regard to

00:10:02.240 immigration that got him in so much trouble. Do you, do you remember, I know it was way, way back,

00:10:08.760 few years ago, Donald Trump said, why are we, why do we have these virtually open borders with 0.84

00:10:15.420 excrement whole countries? Said these are S-H-I-T whole countries. And he, they said, how dare you 0.96

00:10:22.060 say that? How dare you disparage these countries and say that they're filthy and, and ridden with 0.96

00:10:28.380 crime? And then Gavin Newsom just did exactly the same thing. He said, this rail yard is filthy.

00:10:33.540 It's ridden with crime. It's just like a third world country. They said exactly the same thing. 0.90

00:10:40.960 And it's not the only, Democrats question the results of elections. They've been doing it for

00:10:45.540 decades now. That's totally fine. That's actually good. That's a defense of democracy. Donald Trump

00:10:50.320 questions the result of the strangest election in our history. Certainly the strangest one in recent

00:10:55.160 history. That's terrible. That's a threat to democracy. And you especially see it with the rhetoric.

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00:12:30.320 respectful, responsible adult in the room. Nice guy. The return to normal. Was just asked a totally

00:12:38.820 fair question about immigration by Peter Ducey, member of the White House press pool.

00:12:46.440 And Joe Biden got caught on microphone calling him a very naughty name.

00:12:56.220 That's a great asset. More inflation. What a stupid son of a bitch.

00:13:02.220 More inflation. You're going to ask me about more inflation? You dirty, rotten journalist. You 1.00

00:13:09.540 scum of the earth. You're slime. You're the enemy of the people. How dare you ask me a totally fair 1.00

00:13:16.080 question? You stupid son of a gun. He didn't say son of a gun. He was nastier than that. 1.00

00:13:21.540 First takeaway, Joe Biden is a mean and nasty and small man. And he always has been. And the idea that 1.00

00:13:28.840 he's this nice warm guy who licks ice cream cones and pats little kids on the head is a media

00:13:33.880 contrivance. He's a jerk. He's a mean, nasty, shallow jerk. Don't forget what he did to corn 1.00

00:13:40.300 pop. Poor corn pop over there at the Delaware swimming pool. And Joe Biden was really mean and

00:13:45.140 nasty to him. And he's, and he's been mean and nasty for his whole career. He was willing to let 0.88

00:13:50.660 Clarence Thomas be smeared, dragged through the mud on bogus charges, a high tech lynching. He was happy

00:13:57.680 to do it until Clarence Thomas acknowledged that, called him out on that. At his hearing,

00:14:03.080 finally, Joe Biden relented. Joe Biden, who said that Mitt Romney wants to put black people back

00:14:08.200 in chains. Joe Biden, who a petulant, stupid, uneducated man at a presidential debate interjecting 1.00

00:14:18.120 whenever Donald Trump would make a point, say, you're racist. You're racist. You're, you're, 1.00

00:14:21.260 you're, you're mean, you're racist. Racism is the worst thing you can call somebody in the 0.99

00:14:26.380 country. Racist. He keeps doing it. Smeared a 17 year old kid, Kyle Rittenhouse in a presidential 0.92

00:14:31.720 campaign ad said he was, said he was a racist because it's the worst thing that you can call

00:14:35.780 somebody in America today. Launched his presidential campaign on the lie that Donald Trump called neo

00:14:41.200 Nazis fine people at Charlottesville. He's just a, he's just a dirty, rotten, nasty, ugly man. I don't, 1.00

00:14:47.980 I don't know how else to put it. And he says this sort of thing about Peter Doocy. Now I like Peter

00:14:53.780 Doocy, but journalists can take it. I don't, I don't mind it when politicians go a little hard

00:14:59.100 after journalists. My only problem here is the double standard. Donald Trump calls the press,

00:15:05.280 the enemy of the people. And you, you see commercials as though, as though the journalists

00:15:11.780 are little orphan children with Sarah McLachlan playing in the background. You know, you've got

00:15:15.820 Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo in the arms of the angel, you know, like these, these poor little babes,

00:15:21.380 where if you besmirch their high honor, you know, at CNN, that somehow you're threatening our

00:15:27.000 constitution. But then this jerk gets asked a completely fair question about why inflation is 0.99

00:15:33.820 going through the roof. Historic decades high inflation. So you stupid son of a, how dare you 0.99

00:15:39.220 ask me about why you're doing this? But I guess, I guess one of the reasons why Joe Biden is so on 1.00

00:15:46.420 edge right now, other than his manifest senility is that right now we may see war breakout in Ukraine.

00:15:57.040 We might see a Russian invasion of Ukraine and we might be involved in that war. Joe Biden,

00:16:03.200 according to reports, is considering sending several thousand US troops over to Ukraine. Joe Biden has

00:16:11.060 ordered the families of embassy personnel in Ukraine to leave the country to return home. He's considering

00:16:19.100 sending warships and aircraft. And then actually we found out from the Pentagon yesterday, it's not

00:16:24.780 just going to be several thousand troops who could be deployed. The number is as high as 8,500.

00:16:30.280 As you're all aware, the United States is deeply concerned about the current situation in Europe.

00:16:34.960 We remain keenly focused on Russia's unusual military activities near the Ukrainian border,

00:16:41.800 including in Belarus, and consulting extensively with our transatlantic allies and partners.

00:16:47.640 The department continues to support diplomatic efforts to de-escalate the situation.

00:16:52.520 Now, as the president has said, even as we continue to prioritize diplomacy and dialogue, we must also

00:16:58.600 increase readiness. Secretary Austin has placed a range of units in the United States on a heightened

00:17:04.580 preparedness to deploy, which increases our readiness to provide forces if NATO should activate the NRF or

00:17:11.840 if other situations develop. All told, the number of forces that the secretary has placed on heightened

00:17:20.240 alert comes up to about 8,500 personnel. In the event of NATO's activation of the NRF or a deteriorating

00:17:29.260 security environment, the United States would be in a position to rapidly deploy additional brigade

00:17:34.280 combat teams. So this is pretty serious. And I'm not sure that this is just a bluff from the Biden

00:17:40.040 administration. This seems to be a little bit more serious than that. And the situation is rapidly

00:17:50.580 deteriorating there. There seem to be two schools of thought on this. There seem to be only two opinions

00:17:56.680 that you're allowed to have on the right when you look at Ukraine. Either you have to be a complete 0.99

00:18:01.880 isolationist, non-interventionist, there is no reason ever to interfere in any country if we are not

00:18:09.000 directly at existential risk. Pull all the troops home from everywhere in the world. Don't interfere

00:18:15.220 anywhere. That's on one hand. And then on the other hand is the Bush era neocon never met a country

00:18:22.020 that didn't want to bomb, intervene every single place in the world for the vague expansion of democracy

00:18:27.680 and so that we can raise pride flags in Kandahar. Those are, according to our popular discourse,

00:18:34.040 the only two views you're allowed to have. May I offer a third perspective here? This is my third

00:18:41.880 radical perspective on Ukraine and foreign policy generally. Foreign policy is very complicated.

00:18:51.160 That's my ambitious, shocking analysis. Do you care about Ukraine? Maybe you do. Probably you don't.

00:19:04.280 Should we go to war with Russia over Ukraine? Well, what does war mean? Does that mean we're

00:19:09.620 going to invade Moscow? Probably not. Does it mean a land war even in Ukraine? I don't know. Maybe.

00:19:15.440 Does it mean sanctions and air support? I don't know. Possibly. What is at stake? What is the American

00:19:22.680 interest at stake in Ukraine? I'm not so sure, but I do know that before we went to war in other

00:19:27.740 countries within the past decade, we didn't really have a good sense of what our interests were.

00:19:32.700 And then very often we made things worse. I'm thinking of Libya, for instance. Do you remember

00:19:37.880 we had to go into Libya? Why? I don't know, because Hillary Clinton said we did. And it was very

00:19:42.460 important to go into Libya. And then what happened? We got rid of Muammar Gaddafi because he's a bad,

00:19:46.380 he was a bad guy. We got rid of Gaddafi. And then what happened? Things in Libya got worse. They

00:19:50.880 didn't seem to get all that much better. What about Syria? We were told we had to go in and get rid of

00:19:55.240 Bashar Assad in Syria. Why did we have to get rid of Bashar Assad? Well, because he's a bad guy. Okay,

00:20:00.040 he's a bad guy. Who's the good guy who's going to take over? Show me the good guy. I don't see a lot

00:20:04.560 of good guys. In fact, Bashar Assad, his many sins notwithstanding, actually did a fairly decent job of 0.60

00:20:12.220 killing terrorists, at least some of the time. What's our interest? What do we really want to

00:20:16.040 see in Syria? Do you remember, this is my favorite one. There was a meme going around the internet

00:20:19.980 about 10 years ago. Kony 2012. Kony 2012. For those younger listeners out there, you won't remember

00:20:26.900 this. This was the hottest. We all had to band together to stop a warlord in Africa named Joseph

00:20:33.940 Kony because he did bad things, I guess. But no, and everyone got really riled up and we had to go and

00:20:39.580 let's go send in the 101st Airborne and then what? I don't know. We don't even know. I don't even know

00:20:44.780 what happened to Kony. Foreign policy is very, very complicated. Ukraine is one of the most conquered

00:20:53.400 areas in the world. Ukraine has been conquered by Russia, by Tsarist Russia, by Soviet Russia,

00:21:05.020 by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, by the Ottoman Empire, by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

00:21:12.340 Poland, also one of the most conquered territories in the history of the world, conquered

00:21:15.840 Ukraine. Ukraine means borderland. It derives from the Slavic word for borderland.

00:21:26.100 It's going to be conquered again and then someone else is going to conquer it and maybe it goes

00:21:30.440 independent for a while. It's very complicated. And then furthermore, there is a very real critique

00:21:36.680 of American adventurism that I think we need to keep in mind, which is we are not allowed to defend

00:21:43.480 our own border. We must. It is an existential threat to America if we do not defend the current

00:21:50.260 border of Ukraine, which has existed for about five minutes. But we are not allowed to defend the

00:21:55.980 southern border of the United States. That, you just can't do it. It's not possible.

00:22:00.140 The courts won't let us. The activists won't let us. The global elite won't let us. The big business

00:22:07.780 interests won't let us. Can't do that. For whatever reason, we, the mightiest military power in the

00:22:13.100 history of the world, can't secure the Rio Grande. But it is of dire importance that we fly over and

00:22:18.880 send our ships over to Ukraine to prevent a potential Russian incursion to its traditional sphere of

00:22:24.500 influence. You can't keep that up forever, folks. I am somewhat sympathetic to the argument that we

00:22:32.700 don't want Russia to encroach on Ukraine, that it's not good for our interests to let Russia move further

00:22:37.840 out. But empires cannot neglect their homeland to focus on far-flung holdings forever. You can't do that

00:22:49.900 forever. If you do not have some internal cohesion, if you do not have some sense of the national

00:22:55.840 interests at stake, if you do not have a common understanding of what a national interest even is,

00:22:59.900 and certainly if you don't have a common set of values that you are allegedly sending abroad,

00:23:07.000 then it's very, very difficult to project influence. We don't even know what that influence

00:23:11.400 would be. And so the people who want to project American imperial strength around the world,

00:23:17.380 okay, fine, that's all well and good. But you can't do it by completely neglecting the homeland

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00:26:04.020 back with a lot more. Speaking of the Russians, former House Speaker and former presidential candidate

00:26:21.380 Newt Gingrich has a really great idea, if you ask me. And the idea is this. If Republicans retake the

00:26:28.340 House of Representatives, then the members of the Democrat January 6th Committee could find themselves

00:26:34.700 getting subpoenaed. You're going to have a Republican majority in the House and a Republican majority in

00:26:40.080 the Senate. And all these people who've been so tough and so mean and so nasty are going to be delivered

00:26:45.180 subpoenas for every document, every conversation, every tweet, every email, because I think it's clear

00:26:53.020 that these are people who are literally just running over the law, pursuing innocent people,

00:26:58.660 causing them to spend thousands and thousands of dollars in legal fees for no justification.

00:27:04.520 And it's basically a lynch mob. And unfortunately, the attorney general of the United States has joined

00:27:09.080 that lynch mob and is totally misusing the FBI. And I think when you have a Republican Congress,

00:27:14.880 this is all going to come crashing down. And the wolves are going to find out that they're now

00:27:19.300 sheep. And they're the ones who are, in fact, going to, I think, face a real risk of jail for

00:27:24.340 the kind of laws they're breaking. That's the spirit. Whenever you want a good pep talk,

00:27:29.860 whenever you want some encouragement, Newt Gingrich is one of the guys to do it, because what Newt

00:27:33.680 understands is that you've got to fight back. You cannot have unilateral disarmament.

00:27:39.520 I don't want to live in a country where we are regularly throwing our opponents into orange

00:27:45.620 jumpsuits. I think that's bad. I think that's really bad for civilization, bad for our country.

00:27:51.520 But if we're living in a country where the left is doing that, we need to do it too.

00:27:58.700 It's the only way we're going to get rid of it. If we allow them to get away with this sort of stuff

00:28:02.520 with impunity, then we're sunk. That, that is no way to fight. This is, this is what some of

00:28:09.600 the squish Republicans have suggested in the past. They say, well, we can't, we can't fight back

00:28:15.480 against what the left is doing. Because if we did that, we would basically just become the left,

00:28:19.380 you know? Like, like if the left, they especially do this with wielding political power. They'll say,

00:28:23.600 if the left, golly, if the left wields political power to do evil things, and then we come around

00:28:31.960 and wield political power to do good things, why, that would make us no different than the left.

00:28:39.280 I think it would make you pretty different, actually. I think it would make you the kind 1.00

00:28:42.460 of the opposite of the left, because evil and good are the opposite. Well, if the left uses their

00:28:48.200 political leverage to peddle falsehoods, and we then use it to peddle truths, we would be the same.

00:28:54.440 No, you would be different. You'd be the opposite, because truth and falsehood are the opposite,

00:28:58.640 actually. Because procedure is not all that there is. Substance is important in politics, too.

00:29:07.440 And what Newt is saying is he's saying, turn that January 6th commission right back on him.

00:29:11.160 It's a preposterous premise. It is a vindictive, if not illegal, highly legally dubious committee.

00:29:22.920 It's entirely partisan, which is not in keeping with the traditions of our Congress. So just get

00:29:30.120 rid of it. Get rid of it and go after them hard. I love that. No unilateral disarmament.

00:29:36.300 It's important in foreign policy. It's important in domestic policy, too.

00:29:39.040 Got to keep up the heat. Great news from the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has just agreed

00:29:44.220 to hear a pair of cases that will challenge race-based affirmative action policies for

00:29:50.500 college admissions, specifically at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. The cases will

00:29:55.800 most likely be argued next term. This is a really important case, because affirmative action

00:30:03.680 is manifestly illegal. Even the justices who upheld affirmative action the last time one of these

00:30:11.460 cases was brought to the court, even they admitted, it's not kosher. You got to get rid of it. We'll deal 0.98

00:30:18.120 with it for now because we want to engage in some radical social engineering, but it has to be time

00:30:24.880 limited. That big case was Grutter v. Bollinger. And in that case, Sandra Day O'Connor, who was the 0.98

00:30:33.400 swing vote, who swung the case in favor of affirmative action against the rule of law, even though she was 1.00

00:30:39.320 a conservative appointee. She said, we are mindful, however, that a core purpose of the 14th amendment

00:30:44.060 was to do away with all governmentally imposed discrimination based on race. Accordingly, race-conscious

00:30:49.740 admissions policies must be limited in time. So hold on, period. I'm going to pause for a second.

00:30:54.500 She's acknowledging that the 14th amendment says no affirmative action, right? Because affirmative

00:30:59.960 action is discrimination based on race. And frankly, the only reason these cases are even making it up

00:31:05.600 to the court is because they not only discriminate against white people, but against Asian people too.

00:31:10.300 If they were just discriminating against white people, that is perfectly accepted by the culture, 0.99

00:31:14.660 that is actually encouraged by the culture, it's enshrined in law, and no one really says

00:31:19.360 boo about it. But because the laws also discriminate against Asians, which seems kind of weird,

00:31:26.060 this is now going up to the courts. And you remember the last time this happened,

00:31:32.460 Sandra Day O'Connor says, look, the 14th amendment says no affirmative action, but

00:31:35.720 therefore we're going to limit it in time. No, don't limit it in time. Stop it now. It's illegal.

00:31:40.960 So stop it. But no, we want it to go on a little while longer. This requirement of limiting it in time

00:31:46.700 reflects that racial classifications, however compelling their goals, are potentially so

00:31:50.340 dangerous that they may be employed no more broadly than the interest demands. Enshrining a

00:31:54.300 permanent justification for racial preferences would offend this fundamental equal protection

00:31:58.260 principle. We see no reason to exempt race-conscious admissions programs from the requirement that all 0.92

00:32:03.300 governmental use of race must have a logical end point. The law school too concedes that all 0.51

00:32:08.000 race-conscious programs must have reasonable durational limits. Okay.

00:32:13.060 Whatever the bogus argument last time this came up 20 years ago,

00:32:19.520 clearly we're past that time. Or we're right around that time. At the time Sandra Day O'Connor

00:32:25.420 said, I don't know, about 25 years probably. Why? I don't know. Because I'm plucking that out of

00:32:29.200 thin air. But that's why. About 25 years we've got to get rid of affirmative action. We're almost 0.89

00:32:32.620 there. We're almost at that time. It's time to do it. Now is not the time to go weak. You might think,

00:32:38.300 some of the squishes will think, look, we're trying to overturn Roe versus Wade. Maybe if the court

00:32:42.520 overturns Roe versus Wade, then maybe they can go a little weaker on affirmative action and that'll

00:32:46.800 keep everybody happy. Sort of like in the Supreme Court cases on the vaccine mandates. Maybe if we

00:32:52.880 stop the OSHA mandate, but we keep the healthcare mandate, maybe then everyone will be kind of happy.

00:33:00.000 Well, that I think would have the worst possible effect. Because what the court wants to seem like

00:33:05.580 it's doing is not playing politics. But when the court is making those kinds of arguments,

00:33:11.760 it's completely playing politics, right? It's simply saying, we want to make the Republicans

00:33:15.300 happy here and the Democrats happy here, which totally tarnishes the credibility of the court.

00:33:20.300 Follow the law. The law is relatively clear, as clear as it could be. Follow it. Even the people

00:33:27.920 who upheld this stuff say the law was pretty clear. And we need to make clear to the court,

00:33:33.640 which reads the newspapers, that this is what we expect. We expect the overturning of Roe versus

00:33:39.660 Wade, and we will not accept anything less. And we expect the ending of affirmative action, 0.66

00:33:44.620 which is manifestly illegal. Now, speaking of personnel decisions,

00:33:51.860 we're talking about affirmative action or modern broadcasting. Neil Young,

00:33:55.660 Neil Young, aged Canadian hippie, well-known whiner of such songs as,

00:34:02.300 helpless, helpless, old man, take a look at my life. He's, you know, he's been around for a very

00:34:07.620 long time. Not quite as popular now as he once was. Looks crazier than ever. Neil Young is demanding

00:34:14.400 that Spotify make a choice. It's either him or Rogan. Because Neil Young believes that Joe Rogan is

00:34:23.060 spreading fake news about the vaccines. This is very, very dangerous. And so Neil Young says,

00:34:28.540 I'm going to have you take my music off. If you don't, you can hear him. It's not, it's sort of like

00:34:35.040 a, oh boy. I'm not, it's not quite, it's not my best Neil Young impression, but it's not that far

00:34:40.620 off. He says, I'll do this in my ordinary voice. I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake

00:34:46.820 information about vaccines, potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being

00:34:51.680 spread by them. Please act on this immediately today and keep me informed of the time schedule.

00:34:55.460 I want Spotify to know today that I want all my music off their platform. They have Rogan or Young,

00:35:02.180 not both. It's a really tough choice. Really tough choice for Spotify. Do you go with a whiny old hippie 1.00

00:35:10.600 who hasn't been particularly relevant since the seventies or the most popular broadcaster in the entire 0.84

00:35:15.740 world? Who do you pick? Who do you pick? Do you pick this angry guy with admittedly like seven or eight

00:35:23.960 hit songs? More, maybe more, maybe that's not fair. With a, you know, a dozen or so really popular songs

00:35:29.100 or Joe Rogan, the single most popular man with a microphone on planet earth right now.

00:35:36.080 Neil Young, I'm sure makes Spotify several hundred dollars a month and Joe Rogan brings them in

00:35:42.360 gazillions of gazillions of dollars a minute. I suspect they're going to go with Rogan. That's

00:35:48.100 what I would guess. Part of the reason they should go with Rogan is that Neil Young is just wrong on

00:35:54.860 the merits here. Joe Rogan has spread much, much, much less scientific misinformation about COVID

00:36:02.340 than has Dr. Fauci, then has Rochelle Walensky, then has Joe Biden. All of those people spread

00:36:12.140 misinformation about the masks, about the vaccines, about the violence of the virus,

00:36:20.720 about the risk of the virus to other people, about the transmissibility, about all of it.

00:36:25.520 And the way I know that they've spread misinformation is that they have held

00:36:29.360 contradictory sides of all of those issues. Don't wear the masks. They don't work. Do wear

00:36:35.420 the masks. You need to wear them. The vaccines stop infection and transmission. The vaccines don't

00:36:40.000 stop infection and transmission. The vaccines are totally safe. The vaccines actually have some

00:36:46.040 side effects and we're going to pause some of the vaccines sometimes. The cloth masks do work,

00:36:51.260 right? They kept that one up from the first. But actually the cloth masks don't really do very much.

00:36:55.120 They're nothing but a facial decoration. That's what the CNN medical analysts said. On and on and on and

00:36:59.220 on and on. Joe Rogan, much more consistent, much less misinformation than all of that.

00:37:05.240 And the procedure is preposterous for him to say it's him or me. An important lesson in politics

00:37:12.520 is know your leverage. Know your leverage, buddy. Ain't nobody going to be missing Neil Young. I

00:37:16.920 actually kind of like Neil Young songs. Okay, I guess I won't listen to them now. Okay, it's not a huge

00:37:23.500 loss. Plus I can listen to Clapton and Van Morrison who have a decent head on their shoulders.

00:37:27.860 Speaking of weird hippie stuff, the ruling class really, really wants us to eat bugs.

00:37:36.840 They really want it. This has become a meme. People will say, I will not live in the pod.

00:37:43.280 I will not eat the bugs. I will not consume. And the ruling class keeps trying to force us to do it. 0.95

00:37:48.820 They don't want us to live in nice big houses. They don't want us to go to work and to our community

00:37:54.440 and to our church and to stores. They want us to live in a tiny little pod in a metropolitan area.

00:37:58.740 And they want us to eat bugs. From Bloomberg. Why bugs must have a bigger part of the human food

00:38:07.780 chain. They're fine for snacking, but insect protein, I like how they just assume that part. 0.53

00:38:13.380 Yeah, sure. They're fine for snacking, but we need to do more of that. Hold on. I'm a little

00:38:16.920 skeptical of the first premise. They write, quote, humans have been consuming edible insects

00:38:24.040 from crickets and grasshoppers to fire ants and termites since before the dawn of civilization.

00:38:29.800 About 80% of the world's population throughout Asia, Africa, and Latin America continues to eat

00:38:35.120 bugs today. That's true. I think that's true. But I think they're hiding the ball a little bit.

00:38:45.160 Because I think the operative word here is before. They're saying people ate bugs

00:38:50.840 bugs before civilization. That's true. And then we got civilization. And civilization's

00:38:58.100 pretty great, guys. I love civilization. Now, what they're saying, though, is even after the

00:39:06.960 dawn of civilization in the civilized world, some places continued to eat bugs, such as in Asia

00:39:12.600 and Africa and Latin America. First of all, this is painting with a very, very broad brush.

00:39:17.460 There are lots of people who are wealthy, who have been civilized, who have interactions,

00:39:26.900 say, with the West, who are in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, who don't eat bugs. But it's true.

00:39:31.440 There are some very, very poor people, some tribal people. There are many tribal people,

00:39:36.780 actually, in all of those places who still eat bugs and who live in a very uncivilized way.

00:39:41.580 That's bad. We shouldn't want to do that. I don't want to live like a peasant in the middle of some 0.99

00:39:52.040 jungle in Vietnam. I want to live like a civilized person with the cultural inheritance that our

00:39:57.680 forebears gave us, this beautiful thing that we are squandering. But it's not, look, I'm going to

00:40:03.240 continue to do that. I'm not going to eat the bugs. The bugs are gross. And guess what? The people

00:40:07.760 pushing this? Mike Bloomberg, he ain't going to eat the bugs. Bill Gates, he ain't going to eat the

00:40:12.840 bugs. All the Hollywood celebrities, all the global political elites, none of them are going to eat

00:40:18.120 the bugs. They don't want to, because bugs are gross. They're going to eat filet mignon. They're 0.93

00:40:21.700 going to eat caviar. They're going to eat foie gras. And you, you dirty, rotten peasants, you're going to 1.00

00:40:27.100 eat the bugs. And you're going to live in your pod. And you're not going to own anything. And you're 1.00

00:40:32.440 going to like it, by golly. You see this kind of logic, especially with climate change. No,

00:40:41.760 now it's called climate crisis. Before that climate catastrophe, before that climate change,

00:40:47.040 before that global warming, before that global cooling. Leonardo DiCaprio, one of the most vociferous

00:40:55.600 global warming alarmists in the world. He just made that, that alarmist movie about global warming.

00:41:02.760 called Don't Look Up. It was ostensibly about a meteor, but it was really about global warming as

00:41:07.660 the filmmaker and the whole cast admit. Leonardo DiCaprio, speaking about the movie, he said,

00:41:12.920 I've had two great passions in my life. That has been acting and the protection of the natural world

00:41:17.660 and getting the message out about the climate crisis. Okay. He's, he's on crisis. That's the

00:41:21.820 current one. I've had a foundation for 20 years. I got to go to Glasgow. I got to see world leaders

00:41:28.600 make some pretty substantial commitments, much like this movie. There is a ticking clock.

00:41:33.560 I think there's a worldwide sense of anxiety about the fact that the powers that be, the private

00:41:37.740 sector, the governments are not making the transition fast enough. We literally have a

00:41:41.460 nine year window. Set your clocks. Nine years. That's what he's saying. Now, I guess it was only

00:41:50.140 about three or four years ago that AOC claimed that we had 12 years. So we're rough. Maybe they're

00:41:55.360 trying to pick up an extra year there, but we're basically on track. Okay. The nine years it's

00:41:59.140 over. In nine years, set your clocks. That's what 20, 2031. I don't want to hear about it anymore

00:42:06.560 because then it's over. There's nothing to do. Nine years. That's all you get. You can run your

00:42:12.900 mouth for nine more years and whine and complain and try to manipulate the public and take all their

00:42:19.660 rights and take all their property and reorder their way of, you can try it for nine more years,

00:42:23.580 but then I don't want to hear it because you just promised me it's over in nine years. So good. It's

00:42:27.880 over. Now, of course it won't be over. They've, since at least the seventies, really end of the

00:42:34.400 world predictions have been going on since the dawn of time. But the modern environmentalist end of the

00:42:39.800 world predictions have been going on for, I don't know what, about 150 years or so. And then the

00:42:45.140 modern version of it, overpopulation, global warming, the ozone, that's been going on for about

00:42:51.100 60, 70 years. And they, every time they say, we've only got 10 more years, we've only got 10 more

00:42:56.160 years. In the 19, in early 1970s, they said, we've only got 10 more years before there are inevitably

00:43:00.520 global famines because of overpopulation. Didn't happen. The opposite happened. The global population

00:43:05.620 doubled. Malnutrition hit an all time low, but that's it. Thankfully, we don't really hear too much

00:43:11.660 about overpopulation anymore. They're trying to bring it back with the weird bug stuff, but that has,

00:43:16.200 that also has more to do with the weather and the climate and the crisis and whatever.

00:43:21.860 My question for Leonardo DiCaprio is, you got to Glasgow, you got to go see these global leaders

00:43:27.440 make the commitments. How'd you get there? How'd you get to Glasgow? Did you, did you take a ship?

00:43:36.960 Did you, did you canoe? Did you, did you fly commercial even? No, you didn't. You flew a private jet.

00:43:44.800 Because you fly private jets everywhere. Because you consume a whole lot of electricity. We're now

00:43:49.600 told that this is a bad argument. No, you can't, come on, stop pointing that out. It doesn't matter.

00:43:54.680 It's like, it's like saying you're not racist because you have a black friend. Yeah, that's a 0.98

00:43:59.120 good argument too, buddy. Your behavior actually does tell you a lot more about what you actually

00:44:03.080 think than some stupid preaching that you give to news magazines or on television. 1.00

00:44:10.700 Leonardo DiCaprio does not live as though the world is going to end from global warming. 1.00

00:44:14.600 Sorry, climate crisis in nine years. He's not behaving that way because he doesn't really

00:44:19.840 believe it. He wants you to live that way, but he doesn't want to live that way himself.

00:44:24.640 The other lesson we got to take from them, the left is always good at making everything seem

00:44:28.840 super urgent. Everything always seems like a crisis and the right doesn't do that. We're pretty calm.

00:44:33.720 Even with abortion where a million babies a year are being killed almost, we just kind of take it.

00:44:37.880 We're peaceful about it. We're very, we're very calm. We're very, the left doesn't do that.

00:44:42.880 They're very angry. They get very, they get in your face. They say the whole world is going to end.

00:44:49.880 And actually sometimes the left is not peaceful. Sometimes the left does not follow the law. I

00:44:53.960 think we certainly should be peaceful. We certainly should follow the law, but maybe let's turn up

00:44:58.240 the urgency a little bit. Maybe let's learn a little bit from their rhetoric.

00:45:02.900 Now, speaking of adopting the left's agenda, really, really sad news from George Will.

00:45:10.620 George Will is a formerly conservative columnist. He was kind of the conservative columnist

00:45:16.520 for decades. And then he became more of a libertarian in recent years. And now he looks,

00:45:23.780 he looks somewhat liberal on a lot of issues. I think he may have voted for Biden.

00:45:27.860 Could be right. Don't, don't quote me. He certainly didn't vote for Trump. He hates Trump,

00:45:30.520 left the GOP over Trump. Well, now he's come out and endorsed assisted suicide. 0.94

00:45:38.860 Assisted suicide. George Will writes, the Economist magazine, true to its classical liberal

00:45:45.180 tradition, recently praised the welcome spread of assisted dying for advancing a basic freedom

00:45:50.200 that is now legal in one form or another in a dozen countries. And Will acknowledges there's a

00:45:56.000 slippery slope here. And there are a lot of risks that are coming around with this, such as, I don't

00:46:00.680 know, pressuring your old, older family members to just go on and kill themselves and stop being a 0.92

00:46:04.380 burden to you. Those sorts of things. Making people feel like they're old and just useless and 0.98

00:46:09.300 want to just kill themselves because they're, they're no longer adding to the GDP. And, and George 0.97

00:46:15.460 Will says life is lived on a slippery slope. Taxation can become confiscation. Police can become

00:46:20.520 instruments of tyranny. Laws can metastasize suffocatingly. However, taxation, police, and

00:46:26.200 laws are indispensable. The challenge is to minimize dangers that cannot be entirely eliminated

00:46:30.600 from society. Okay. That's fair enough. I grant that's true. All those examples he gives can become,

00:46:37.040 they are on a slippery slope. They can become very terrible, but they're indispensable of society.

00:46:41.160 But this is a really stupid argument because assisted suicide is not indispensable to society. 0.99

00:46:47.580 It's always wrong. In the Netherlands, just in recent years, an old woman was held down and 0.99

00:46:53.080 killed against her will because she had, he had, she had assented to it at one point. And then in

00:46:58.080 the moment when they were about to kill her, she pushed back, she was fighting the family and the

00:47:01.300 doctors held her down and they killed her. And then also in the Netherlands, a 29 year old woman did not

00:47:05.720 suffer from some terminal cancer, some illness that was going to kill her in six months. She just had

00:47:09.960 anxiety. She just had depression, some eating disorders. And do you know what happened? They let her kill

00:47:14.840 herself. 29 years old. In 2014, Belgium became the first country to authorize children to request

00:47:22.320 assisted suicide if they suffer a terminal disease or understand the consequences of the act.

00:47:27.560 Children, assisted suicide. Children have a moody day. They have, they go through some psychological

00:47:33.960 trouble. They kill themselves at basically any age. This is not conservative. This leads to horrible

00:47:41.180 abuses. This is not going to make a good flourishing country. If you want a flourishing

00:47:49.000 country, if you want to be able to project strength abroad, if you want to be able to have strength at

00:47:52.320 home, the basic thing is you need to not kill yourself. Okay. You need to live. You need to

00:47:57.440 order your society toward flourishing. And at the most basic level, don't kill yourself. And when even the

00:48:02.660 nominal conservatives are pushing this stuff, you know, we're in a really,

00:48:06.360 really bad spot. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.

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Ep. 929 - Tom Hanks and Joe Biden Think We’re Stupid SOBs

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